# Ciaotou
## English
### Alternative forms

* Ch’iao-t’ou, Chiaotou (Wade–Giles)
* Qiaotou (Hanyu Pinyin)

### Etymology

From the Tongyong Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin Chinese pronunciation for 橋頭 (Ciáotóu).

### Pronunciation

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### Proper noun

Ciaotou
* A district of Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
** 2011, Anru Lee, Perng-juh Peter Shyong, “Assessing (multi)culturalism through public art practices”, in T.W. Ngo, Hong-zen Wang, editors, Politics of Difference in Taiwan‎, Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 194:The only Special Station public artwork that was commissioned from a Taiwanese artist, Chu Pang-hsiung, is installed at Ciaotou [Kio-A-Thau] Station, near the location of the now-defunct Ciaotou Sugar Refinery.
** 2014, Robert Kelly, Chung Wah Chow, Taiwan‎, 9th edition, Lonely Planet, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 256:Ciaotou Sugar Factory (橋頭糖廠, Qiáotóu Tángchǎng) Ciaotou consists of a defunct factory (which you can walk into, and explore the old mechanisms and vats) and an old village that retains most of its early-20th-century flavour.
** 2017 September 30, “Jurisdiction”, in 臺灣橋頭地方檢察署 [Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office]‎, archived from the original on 24 July 2019:The jurisdiction area of Taiwan Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office includes 26 districts in total.
** 2018 November 20, Ko Yu-hao, Sherry Hsiao, Jonathan Chin, “Kaohsiung mayoral rivals cross swords in debate”, in Taipei Times‎, archived from the original on 19 November 2018:He promised to create a point of contact to attract businesses and investments, open a science park in Ciaotou District (橋頭), connect Kaohsiung and Tainan via a “technological corridor,” and bring in more than NT$600 billion (US$19.4 billion) in economic output.
** 2018, “Ciaotou Sugar Refinery”, in Hou Ya-ting, transl., Love Kaohsiung‎, number 6, archived from the original on 22 October 2020:Ciaotou Sugar Refinery was built during Japanese colonial rule period and was the first modern sugar refinery in Taiwan. It was established by the Japanese company Mitsui Corporation, with operations commencing in 1902. At the height of its yearly production it contributed 60,000 metric tons of sugar. Ciaotou became a prosperous industrial area because of it. The once flourishing sugar refinery closed in 1999, yet it will always be an important part Ciaotou 's sweet history.
** 2019, Mariko Iijima, “Sugar Islands in the Pacific in the Early Twentieth Century: Taiwan as a Protégé of Hawai'i”, in Historische Anthropologie‎, volume 27, number 3, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 369:His suggestion was soon realized when Taiwan Sugar began operating its first ‘newstyle’ sugar factory in Kyōshitō (present-day Ciaotou District, Kaohsiung City: see Map 1), in January 1902.
** 2019 August 20, Chen Chi-fong, Wen Kuei-hsiang, Wang Shu-fen, Ko Lin, “Kaohsiung mayor voices frustration, claims car wired with tracker”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 22 October 2020:The Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office and Kaohsiung police both responded Tuesday that no relevant information has been received so far from the mayor's office. . . . Wang Po-tun (王柏敦), an official with the Ciaotou Prosecutors Office, said that if Han was to file a charge on offences against privacy, he would have to do it personally.
** 2020 April 22, Louise Watt, “Kaohsiung Seeks a Change of Fortune”, in American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei‎, archived from the original on April 28, 2020:Tsai says that 10 years ago, when Kaohsiung County became part of the city, an AmCham Kaohsiung white paper suggested that the government create an industry centered on the long-term care of senior citizens to take advantage of Kaohsiung’s warm climate, lower living costs, and convenient transportation. But the city government has preferred to focus on high-tech industry, such as developing a new science park in the Ciaotou district.
** 2022 January 27, Meng-yu Tsai, Tseng yi-ning, Tseng Chih-yi, James Lo, “Department head at state-run CPC detained for corruption”, in Focus Taiwan‎, archived from the original on 27 January 2022:An investigation into corruption involving CPC's refinery division was launched after the Ministry of Justice's Agency Against Corruption (AAC) received a tip-off from an anonymous whistleblower, accusing Hsu of taking bribes from businesses. The AAC reported the case to Kaohsiung City's Ciaotou District Prosecutors Office, which set up a special taskforce to look into Hsu.[...] At 4 a.m. Thursday, the Taiwan Ciaotou District Court issued an order to detain both Hsu and Liu, with the former held incommunicado.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ “Taiwan place names”, in Pinyin.info‎, 2006, archived from the original on 2006-10-01‎: “鄉鎮市區別 / Hanyu Pinyin (recommended) / Hanyu Pinyin (with tones) / Tongyong Pinyin / old forms […] 橋頭鄉 / Qiaotou / Qiáotóu / Ciaotou / Chiaotou”